Section 9: Maintenance; Understanding Maintenance; Periodic Burner Inspection - Saturn 125 Operator's Manual

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Understanding Maintenance

Servicing your Clean Burn furnace in a timely manner is very important to keep your furnace running in peak

condition. Just as an automobile requires periodic maintenance such as oil changes, engine tune-ups, etc. your

Clean Burn furnace also requires regularly scheduled service.

WARNING: Failure to maintain and/or improper servicing by unqualified personnel may

adversely affect the proper, safe operation of your furnace, may reduce the service life of your

furnace, and may void your warranty.

The following chart summarizes all the service intervals which are required to maintain your furnace. Service

instructions/procedures for these activities are included in this chapter.

Maintenance Activity

Periodic Burner Inspection

Cleaning the canister filter

Servicing the metering pump

Cleaning the check valve/screen

Cleaning water/sludge out of tank

Cleaning out ash

Annual burner tune-up

*It is very important to clean ash from the furnace on schedule. Normal use of the furnace requires

clean-out at least twice during the heating season. Heavy, around-the-clock usage requires more

frequent clean-out. For instance, one month of continual running of the furnace is 720 hours (24 hours x 30

days = 720 hours).

NOTE: IMPORTANT! Record all maintenance activities in the Maintenance Record provided in Appendix C.

Periodic Burner Inspection

Following initial start up of the burner, you should inspect the operation of the burner periodically--ideally on a

monthly basis. Doing so ensures that the system is functioning efficiently and safely.

Follow these guidelines for inspecting the operation of the burner:

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Visually inspect the flame length through the observation

port; the flame should extend no more than one-half of

the way down the combustion chamber.

-If the flame is diminishing or displays wide

variations, clean the canister filter and check

valve/screen (procedures provided in this

section).

-If the flame is firing too strongly (i.e. flame

touches back and/or side walls of the

combustion chamber), check the air pressure setting (see following guideline).

Operator's Manual: Models Saturn™ 140 & Saturn™ 230